This feels icky..

I liked it at the beginning, although the FL never truly clarifying to people including ogML that his behaviour is causing her issues bugged me a lot.
Also, for a plot that tried to make kind of commentary how other characters are villainzed for ML and FL to have a happy ending, it did the same. The plot villainized og ML and FL then about the middle we get that they are kind bound by some force that makes them behave that way, yet ogML got to ve the sacrificial lamb when he was the only charcater that had a legitimate reason to grow crooked like ML did in the og plot. Its like the author can't decide which plot trope they actually want to go with and decided to make a custom blend of sort which fell flat.

Frankly, the story would have been great if all the characters would have been rescued from the og plot influence and got a HE. Even ogFL said she'd be willing to give ogML a chance if he goes back to being how he was originally. Ferson wasn't a bad person initially the ab*se and the FL kept him limited to the number of people he can open up to. It is like once she realized she'll get killed for being friends with him she decided to save her skin, like fair but she does say she was genuinely friends with this guy then why did she make no effort to save him? She did make an effort for the ogFL who outright bullied her. Yet this guy she was childhood friends with, she started saying "I hate the ML", I mean there was no reason to but plot, which is exactly how the og plot was designed. This wasn't worth my time and ruined my mood.